On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advetiser published an
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the West-Indies to his friend in Falmouth, Casco-Bay.
We are anxious—very anxious, to hear from you.—Don’t think because we know little, we care little about you; for though you have many enemies, you have also many staunch friends, who, though living in a land where slavery is not only tolerated, but productive of the greatest wealth and affluence to the masters and proprietors, yet retain such a sense of freedom, as openly to defend her cause, and with zeal and warmth side with the Americans in their present glorious struggle for the restoration of such of their natural and stipulated liberties as have been wrested from them; and the preservation of such as yet remain.
On This Day In The Revolution 